Word: lames
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supreme Court, 22 were turned down by Congress. President John Tyler had four nominees rejected in two years, Grover Cleveland two in 1894. As for the matter of encroaching on presidential prerogatives, it was just two years ago that Candidate Nixon was successfully arguing that Lyndon Johnson, as a lame duck, ought not exercise his appointment powers by naming Earl Warren's successor...
...aiming for high fashion in the '70s might start thinking about a double-breasted suit in gold lame, or even scuffed white bucks. The Fashion Foundation of America has named Pianist Liberace, famous for the former, and Evangelist Billy Graham, who frequently sports the latter, to its annual list of America's best-dressed men. Heading the list of winners in 15 highly redundant categories was Spiro Agnew, who bumped his boss Richard Nixon as best-dressed statesman. Tailors and designers admired his "sincerity" in dress. Other winners included Barry Goldwater, Ed Sullivan, and Britain's Prince...
...tranquilizer game has its merits. In the winning effort the horse is not drugged. The trainer can explain that he worked some soreness out of the horse's legs. Many honest trainers can get one last race out of a sore performer before the horse goes completely lame, and the crooked trainer's explanation to the stewards must often be accepted...
...your ankles. Most thoroughbreds have sore legs. With butazolidin or some other pain-killer a horse cannot feel anything in his leg. Unable to feel that his unsound leg is about to break, he will run until his leg gives way and he falls. Every-time a horse goes lame and tumbles during the running of a race a courageous animal has to be destroyed and the jockey risks being trampled to death. Pain-killing drugs do not make all horses run faster, but they do make all sore horses run faster...